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For the sixth time this year, U.S. President Donald Trump sent his special envoy, Steve Witkoff, to Moscow — this time accompanied by Jared Kushner — and once again returned with cordial meetings but no breakthrough on a cease-fire or an enduring peace settlement for Ukraine. The repeat mission underscores a familiar pattern: U.S. interlocutors sit down with senior Russian officials, describe the talks as constructive, and leave with little to show except the prospect of more discussions. “Compromises have not been found…

Advisory panel appointed by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. voted Thursday to stop recommending that all newborns in the United States routinely receive a Hepatitis B vaccine, a major reversal of three decades of federal guidance that public health experts say could increase infections in infants and children. The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices voted 8-3 to shift to "individual-based decision-making" for the birth dose when mothers test negative for Hepatitis B, recommending that parents consult a…

Frank Gehry, the visionary architect whose sculptural, often metallic buildings reshaped skylines and public imagination, has died at 96, Meaghan Lloyd, chief of staff at Gehry Partners LLP, said. Gehry died at his home in Santa Monica after a brief respiratory illness. Gehry, whose work fused modern pop art sensibilities with engineering daring, won virtually every prize in his field, including the Pritzker Prize, the Royal Institute of British Architects gold medal, the Americans for the Arts lifetime achievement award…

Jair Bolsonaro has signaled his intention to back his eldest son, Senator Flavio Bolsonaro, as a presidential candidate in Brazil’s 2026 election, the Liberal Party said, setting off political and market jitters on Thursday. Valdemar Costa Neto, head of Jair Bolsonaro’s right-wing Liberal Party, told Reuters he had been told by the senator that the former president had “ratified his candidacy.” CNN Brasil, citing unnamed sources, reported that Jair Bolsonaro offered his support to his son during a visit to federal police…

Japa and Japada: the twin words now woven into Nigeria’s migration story — one that charts the exodus of skilled young people and the tentative returns that follow. For those who have left and come back, the decision to return is not simply personal; it is an economic and social experiment played out in kitchens, boardrooms and startups across Lagos and beyond. “I was probably the only black person in school at the time,” says Adenike Adekunle, recalling her childhood in Tipperary after she emigrated from Nigeria at age 7.…

Ukraine negotiators and U.S. officials are holding fresh talks in Miami on a Washington-backed plan to end Russia’s invasion, a Kyiv adviser said, as behind-the-scenes diplomacy intensifies over proposals that would require territorial concessions and stop short of NATO membership. The meeting was scheduled to begin in Florida this week with U.S. President Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law, listed as participants, though U.S. officials have not publicly confirmed whether an…

Israeli airstrikes hit towns in south Lebanon on Wednesday as the Israeli military said it was targeting Hezbollah weapons storage facilities, a day after Lebanese and Israeli civilian representatives met for direct talks under a U.N. ceasefire mechanism. The strikes struck Mahrouna, Jbaa, Majadal and Baraasheet, Lebanon's official National News Agency reported, and an AFP photographer saw smoke rising above Jbaa. The Israeli army said it "began conducting strikes on Hezbollah terror targets in southern Lebanon" after…

Cloudflare outage briefly knocked a host of websites and monitoring tools offline Tuesday morning, including DownDetector, the real-time service that tracks online outages, the company said. Cloudflare said shortly after 9 a.m. that it "is investigating issues with Cloudflare Dashboard and related APIs (application programming interfaces)." The company said minutes later it had implemented a potential fix and was monitoring results, but multiple sites and platforms nevertheless experienced interruptions. DownDetector —…

Edinburgh Airport said flights have resumed after a temporary suspension this morning caused by an issue with its air traffic control provider. The airport, which is the sixth-busiest in the U.K., said travel was halted for a time while the problem was addressed. It handled 15.8 million passengers last year. Officials provided few details about the nature of the fault or which air traffic control provider was involved. Edinburgh Airport said the disruption was not linked to a separate Cloudflare outage affecting internet…

The US military said a strike on an alleged drug‑trafficking boat in the eastern Pacific killed four people, a development that has reignited scrutiny of an increasingly aggressive counter‑narcotics campaign that has left more than 87 dead and exposed deep fractures in Washington over rules of engagement and accountability. The episode comes amid sustained controversy over an incident in early September in which US forces struck the wreckage of a vessel that had already been disabled, killing two survivors. That earlier…